I’m an archaeologist deeply involved in quantitative archaeology. According to me there is a natural history of human societies, so I am quite interested by social sciences, statistics, pattern recognition and data visualization.
There is my CV
I have participate to various projects where a certain degree of formalism was expected to identify reccurent and significative patterns
My PhD (2012), published in the Mémoires de la Société Préhistorique Française (n° 63) (2017), was dedicated to the mont Bego rock-art (Alpes-Maritimes, France),
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The mont Bego site is one of the major concentration in Western Europe with near to 4,000 engraved rocks.
There’s 20,000 figurative engravings.
I started to develop the Bego app to allow the general public to prepare a visit to the site.
Ibañez et al., published a comprehensive study of the context of PPNB flint bladelets found in Kharaysin (Jordania)in Antiquity (2020) question the anthropomorphism of these first societies of farmers.
Kharaysin bladelets, credits: Kharaysin project
The dataset was compared to Aïn Ghazal statues and busts (PPNB). A shape analysis of the , dated to , with a procustre analysis made on the whole contour (not only some landmarks) The shapes of the flint bladelets from Kharaysin mix together with the statues and busts from the near Aïn Ghazal site
Kharaysin bladelets, credits: Kharaysin project
I am used to programm in R and Python, also using markup languages (LaTeX, HTML, etc.), the GitHub platform, GIS and database. I am also familiar with network analysis, shape analysis and 3D/photogrammetry
I’ve developed 3 RShiny apps based on R and Leaflet:
| name | topic | web.url | app.url |
|---|---|---|---|
| EUROEVOL_R | Radiocarbon mapping | https://zoometh.github.io/C14/ | https://neolithic.shinyapps.io/Euroevol_R/ |
| NeoNet | Radiocarbon mapping | https://zoometh.github.io/C14/neonet | https://neolithic.shinyapps.io/NeoNet/ |
| Bego | Rock-art mapping | https://zoometh.github.io/bego/ | None |
I am developping of a R package with Jose Pozo and Craig Alexander. This package has the working name of ‘decorr’ (soon: ‘iconr’). Its purpose is to:
| common edges (in red) between two Late Bronze stelae |